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Impacted areas: - Functions pop_past and pop_future in dirhistory plugin.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.01052,"percentile":0.64794,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-78","CWE-94"],"published":"2021-11-30T09:30:14Z","modified":"2026-10-20T10:53:51Z","products":[{"vendor":"ohmyzsh","product":"ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh"},{"vendor":"planetargon","product":"oh_my_zsh"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/commit/06fc5fb","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3725"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3jcx-v57w-c6rq"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2021-3725","title":"OS Command Injection in ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh","description":"Vulnerability in dirhistory plugin Description: the widgets that go back and forward in the directory history, triggered by pressing Alt-Left and Alt-Right, use functions that unsafely execute eval on directory names. 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